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Author: Paul M. Collins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-06-24
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1107039703
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book demonstrates that the hearings to confirm Supreme Court nominees are in fact a democratic forum for the discussion and ratification of constitutional change.
Author: Dion Farganis
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2014-03-24
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0472120271
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Critics claim that Supreme Court nominees have become more evasive in recent decades and that Senate confirmation hearings lack real substance. Conducting a line-by-line analysis of the confirmation hearing of every nominee since 1955—an original dataset of nearly 11,000 questions and answers from testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee—Dion Farganis and Justin Wedeking discover that nominees are far more forthcoming than generally assumed. Applying an original scoring system to assess each nominee’s testimony based on the same criteria, they show that some of the earliest nominees were actually less willing to answer questions than their contemporary counterparts. Factors such as changes in the political culture of Congress and the 1981 introduction of televised coverage of the hearings have created the impression that nominee candor is in decline. Further, senators’ votes are driven more by party and ideology than by a nominee’s responsiveness to their questions. Moreover, changes in the confirmation process intersect with increasing levels of party polarization as well as constituents’ more informed awareness and opinions of recent Supreme Court nominees.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Considers legislation to propose a constitutional amendment to fix the number of Supreme Court Judges at nine; to make retirement compulsory at age 75; to render Justices ineligible to become President or Vice President of US within 5 years of leaving the Court and to clarify appellate jurisdiction of the Court in certain circumstances.
Author: Ilya Shapiro
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2020-09-22
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1684510724
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A must-read for anyone interested in the Supreme Court."—MIKE LEE, Republican senator from Utah Politics have always intruded on Supreme Court appointments. But although the Framers would recognize the way justices are nominated and confirmed today, something is different. Why have appointments to the high court become one of the most explosive features of our system of government? As Ilya Shapiro makes clear in Supreme Disorder, this problem is part of a larger phenomenon. As government has grown, its laws reaching even further into our lives, the courts that interpret those laws have become enormously powerful. If we fight over each new appointment as though everything were at stake, it’s because it is. When decades of constitutional corruption have left us subject to an all-powerful tribunal, passions are sure to flare on the infrequent occasions when the political system has an opportunity to shape it. And so we find the process of judicial appointments verging on dysfunction. Shapiro weighs the many proposals for reform, from the modest (term limits) to the radical (court-packing), but shows that there can be no quick fix for a judicial system suffering a crisis of legitimacy. And in the end, the only measure of the Court’s legitimacy that matters is the extent to which it maintains, or rebalances, our constitutional order.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Standing Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Considers constitutional amendment proposals to authorize state government appointments for House of Representatives' vacancies during national emergencies, to establish nation-wide primaries for Presidential and Vice Presidential nominations, to reduce the voting age to 18, and to prohibit the election of Federal judiciary members to public office.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 854
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David A. Kaplan
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2018-09-04
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 1524759929
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The former legal affairs editor of Newsweek takes us inside the secret world of the Supreme Court and shows how the justices subvert the role of the other branches of government—and how we’ve come to accept it at our peril. Never before has the Court been more central in American life. It is now the nine justices who too often decide the biggest issues of our time—from abortion and same-sex marriage to gun control, campaign finance, and voting rights. The Court is so crucial that many voters in 2016 made their choice based on whom they thought their presidential candidate would name to the Court. Donald Trump picked Neil Gorsuch—the key decision of his new administration. The newest justice, Brett Kavanaugh—replacing Anthony Kennedy—is even more important, holding the swing vote over so much social policy. With the 2020 campaign underway, and with two justices in their ’80s, the Court looms even larger. Is that really how democracy is supposed to work? Based on exclusive interviews with the justices, Kaplan provides fresh details about life behind the scenes at the Court: the reaction to Kavanaugh’s controversial arrival, the new role for Chief Justice John Roberts, Clarence Thomas's simmering rage, Antonin Scalia's death, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's celebrity, Breyer Bingo, and the petty feuding between Gorsuch and the chief justice. Kaplan offers a sweeping narrative of the justices’ aggrandizement of power over the decades—from Roe v. Wade to Bush v. Gore to Citizens United. (He also faults the Court for not getting involved when it should—for example, to limit partisan gerrymandering.) But the arrogance of the Court isn't partisan: Conservative and liberal justices alike are guilty of overreach. Challenging conventional wisdom about the Court's transcendent power, as well as presenting an intimate inside look at the Court, The Most Dangerous Branch is sure to rile both sides of the political aisle.
Author: Laurence Tribe
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2014-06-03
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0805099093
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An assessment of how the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts is significantly influencing the nation's laws and reinterpreting the Constitution includes in-depth analysis of recent rulings and their implications.
Author: Paul M. Collins, Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-09
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1108498485
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the relationship between the president and the Supreme Court, including how presidents view the norm of judicial independence.
Author: Amanda Hollis-Brusky
Publisher: Studies in Postwar American Po
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0199385521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Many of these questions--including the powers of the federal government, the individual right to bear arms, and the parameters of corporate political speech--had long been considered settled. But the Federalist Society was able to upend the existing conventional wisdom, promoting constitutional theories that had previously been dismissed as ludicrously radical. Hollis-Brusky argues that the Federalist Society offers several of the crucial ingredients needed to accomplish this constitutional revolution. It serves as a credentialing institution for conservative lawyers and judges, legitimizes novel interpretations of the constitution through a conservative framework, and provides a judicial audience of like-minded peers, which prevents the well-documented phenomenon of conservative judges turning moderate after years on the bench. Through these functions, it is able to exercise enormous influence on important cases at every level.
